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[quote=Anonymous]I had a rough go of my first - non-sleeping, colic, acid reflux, supply issues, generally ill-content baby. The sleep deprivation stayed fresh in my mind for years since she never slept more than 2 hours at a time until past 8 months, then finally slept through the night at 11.5. I was a walking zombie that entire first year. My mental health suffered, I wasn't happy at home, my work suffered. Just all around bad.

It took me until she was just over 3 to even be able to say I might be willing to consider doing it again. We started trying again when she was 3.5. Number 2 will be born when she is just shy of 5.

While in my ideal world, it wasn't how I pictured my own family since I come from a family with a 5 year gap between children and it didn't work well for multiple reasons, the reality for my particular situation was that I knew I had to be in a place mentally where I could handle the possibility that this baby may be just like my first. And that was not until my first was much more independent since I just don't think I could deal with the sleep deprivation and two at extremely needy ages.[/quote]

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